FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Friday, October 13, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE In 2022, the Department of Defense created a cross-functional team to accelerate the adoption of 5G and future-generation wireless networking technologies, laying the foundation for new opportunities to implement innovative solutions to military needs. The potential is there for 5G (and beyond) to remake the integration and interoperability of the different DoD domains – air, land, sea, space, and cyber – as envisioned in DoD’s Joint All-Dom

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International With its broad national security role, the DOD has been a pioneer in the development of numerous innovative cybersecurity solutions.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | Training Certificate Agencies today are faced with the challenge of modernizing legacy IT solutions to streamline workflows and increase the speed and quality of their services. But the push toward standardization must also take into account that people do their best work when they have the best tools.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Josh Petty, general counsel for Booz Allen Hamilton, has been appointed chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 General Counsel Group. The 4×24 leadership program offers its members, who represent impactful organizations within the government contracting industry, a space to come together with top federal officials to consider critical U.S. missions.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Friday, October 20, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Communications security is one of the foremost priorities in any battlespace. This is one reason the Department of Defense is keen on building out 5G capabilities, because of its ability to create secure private networks anywhere it is deployed. But 5G’s capabilities extend beyond creating private networks on the fly.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Diana Lovati, formerly chief information security officer at Ball’s (NYSE: BALL) aerospace business, has assumed the same role at True Anomaly, according to a LinkedIn post published Tuesday.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 10, 2023

While many organizations are hesitant to be first adopters during the current wave of artificial intelligence, for the CIA, it’s “imperative” that the agency takes swift action to begin working with the rapidly evolving technology or risk falling victim to those that do, according to the agency’s top cyber policy adviser. One thing that “is pretty clear is those entities that augment their activities with AI applications will likely disrupt those entities that do no

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 | 2:00PM EST | 1 Hour | Training Certificate Many government agencies wrestle with their legacy systems and outdated processes every day, especially when it comes to cybersecurity and data flow. Agencies usually have multiple servers, private or hybrid clouds, and thousands of end points, from desktop computers to smart phones, tablets to sensors, generating millions of bits of data.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The U.S. Navy plans to compete on an unrestricted basis a potential eight-year, $8 billion multiple-award contract to provide construction, repair, demolition and alteration support services for infrastructure projects within the state of Hawaii and Wake Island.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Friday, October 27, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Advances in telecommunications capabilities are a major driver in Department of Defense programs. From creating secure private networks that U.S. military forces and their partners can use in conflicts to integrating 5G capabilities to create “smart” warehouses to significant improvements in supply chain logistics, DoD has been committed to investing in rethinking the meaning and applications of communications.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Ken Rollins, technology architect for digital engineering/edge at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said government agencies seeking to accelerate technology modernization efforts and better use data to address complex challenges should consider adopting digital twins.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Members of the National Guard wear multiple hats. They can be called up at a moment’s notice to support the full-time military overseas, to assist first responders during a natural disaster or other emergency at home, and most of them have civilian jobs as well. With those wide-ranging duties on their plates, National Guard members who work in cybersecurity must be prepared for any number of possible threats.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As the chief acquisition executive at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, David Patrick is responsible for administering the agency’s acquisition and procurement efforts for new technologies and tools. He is CISA’s link to the government industrial base and actively seeks new opportunities to partner with the private sector to strengthen the country’s cyber defenses.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Curtiss-Wright 's defense solutions division has launched a next-generation high-voltage power management system designed to stabilize turret drives to address the power requirements of U.S. ground vehicles. The high-voltage turret drive stabilization system uses a platform's existing continuous low-voltage power to convert 28V battery voltage up to 750V for precise maneuvering of high-inertia loads, such as medium caliber weapon systems, main battle tank turret drives and stabilizatio

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has won a potential five-year, $53 million task order to help the Defense Threat Reduction Agency build and enhance partner nation capacity to counter and deter weapons of mass destruction and emerging threats.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Northrop Grumman conducted a series of demonstrations of the Integrated Battle Command System involving simulated attacks in the Washington metropolitan area. The event, which was held at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, showcased the capability of IBCS to integrate sensors and effectors used by the U.S. armed forces in the face of complex threats, the company said Monday.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Comtech (Nasdaq: CMTL) will provide professional engineering services and supply terrestrial and satellite networking communications technologies for the U.S. Army under a potential $544 million task order awarded under the Global Tactical Communications Systems II contract.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

BAE Systems and the U.S. Army fired the XM1155-SC guided projectile from an M109 Paladin self-propelled howitzer, demonstrating the capability of the round to extend the range of the artillery system. The test fire was conducted at Yuma Providing Ground in Arizona.

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Select GCR

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Founder & CEO of Select GCR, Jason Bortz featured on Spotlight Digital Network with Damon Roberts. Earning Government Contracts is something that most of us don’t know a great deal about. That’s why Founder and CEO of Select GCR , Jason Bortz has been busy lately doing interviews across the country with a variety of news programs like Fox Business Networks Worldwide with Kathy Ireland and more!

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A Fluor business has secured a contract extension from the U.S. Navy to continue supporting the Nuclear Propulsion Program of the Naval Nuclear Laboratory for an additional five years to 2028. The contract extension allows Fluor Marine Propulsion to manage and operate the primary facilities of NNL in New York, Pennsylvania and Idaho, Fluor said Monday.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Kay Kapoor, founder and CEO of management consulting firm Arya Technologies, has been appointed to the board of directors at Dayton, Ohio-headquartered government technology provider Frontier Technology Inc.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Todd Probert , president of national security and innovative solutions at CACI International , said at the Association of the U.S. Army convention in Washington that the technology company is focusing on “signals of interest” to meet the Army's demand for technology that would enable it to operate in a “more sophisticated peer environment”.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

HII’s (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding business has promoted David Horne from senior director to vice president of trades. NNS split the trades and human resources and administration organization into two and named Horne to lead the former and Xavier Beale to continue serving as VP of HR and administration, HII said Monday.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Canadian telecommunications company Octasic has established a U.S. subsidiary and set up a new facility in Florida. Octasic US will take on the responsibility of handling upcoming 5G wireless projects that support the defense and intelligence sectors in the country, the company said Monday.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | Training Certificate We all now live in a data-driven world. And the federal government may be the single largest generator – and user – of data in the world. According to Digital.gov, “Every day, thousands of federal workers collect, create, analyze, and distribute massive amounts of data from weather forecasts to economic indicators to health statistics.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Palantir Technologies has booked a potential three-year, $250 million contract from the U.S. Army for artificial intelligence and machine learning-related work. Under the potential three-year award, Palantir will offer its services to the combatant commands, armed services, Intelligence Community and special forces to support their ongoing efforts to test, utilize and scale these technologies, the Denver, Colorado-based company announced on Tuesday.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Thursday, October 19, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE The central premise of Office of Management and Budget Memo 22-09 laying out the Federal Zero Trust Strategy is that no actor, system, network, or service operating outside or within the security perimeter is trusted. Controlling access is everything. This makes defining identity crucial – not just for people, but for every device of any kind that tries to access an agency system.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

L3Harris Technologies has signed a multi-year strategic agreement with Creation Technologies to support critical defense and aerospace programs. The agreement involves streamlining manufacturing and design processes with the aim of improving the capability of the defense industrial supply base, L3Harris said Monday.

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Government Contract Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Information Security Oversight Office (ISSO) have issued a Joint Notice to clarify how Facility Security Clearances (FCLs) (also called Entity Eligibility Determinations, or EEDs) work for joint ventures. As we have discussed before, the SBA regulations for a few years now have specified that procuring agencies may not require joint ventures to possess an FCL as a condition of the award of a small business set-aside contract.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The technology foundation of not-for-profit organization Mitre has spun out Mitre ATT&CK Defender onto venture-based startup MAD20 Technologies under a tech transfer agreement. MAD20 has been independently operating Mitre ATT&CK Defender -- the training and credentialing program for the ATT&CK cybersecurity knowledge base -- since Sept. 30, Mitre said.

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WashngtonExec

OCTOBER 10, 2023

National security leaders play key roles in the modernization, protection and defense of the technologies that fuel missions on land, sea, air and space. These leaders are undoubtedly supporting one of the government’s most important missions: to secure and defend the nation’s citizens, economy and institutions. These highlighted security-related missions touch on critical infrastructure and [.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Chris Winslett, general manager of Blue Canyon Technologies , an RTX subsidiary, said the small satellite developer aims to expand its presence in the defense market by pursuing business opportunities with spacecraft manufacturers bidding for Space Development Agency contracts. "I think there's enormous opportunities in defense, civil, on the intelligence side, as well as commercial space," said Winslett.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 10, 2023

An Illinois PET scan company and its founder and owner have agreed to pay $85.5 million to settle claims that the company allegedly paid kickbacks to physicians to refer Medicare patients for cardiac scans through the use of "sham" medical supervision agreements, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

On October 10, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, a Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) whistleblower case with widespread implications for the ability of whistleblowers to seek anti-retaliation protections under federal whistleblower laws. The case was filed by an ex-employee against UBS Bank. Trevor Murray alleges that he was fired from his role as a bond strategist at UBS because he refused to publish misleading research reports and complained about being press

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Government Contracts Navigator

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Michael Joseph Montalbano and Oliver E. Jury ● On October 3, 2023, the FAR Council issued two proposed cybersecurity rules that could have significant implications for both Government prime and subcontractors. This article discusses the first rule, FAR Case No. 2021-017, which, if implanted, will impose an array of new cyber incident reporting requirements on nearly … Continue reading "The FAR Council Proposes New Cyber Incident Reporting Requirements" The post The FAR Council Proposes New

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Extract Systems

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Records digitization projects show no signs of abating, especially when there has been money available through programs like the Cures Act and American Rescue Plan to modernize record storage. Some counties, though, got started with their plans long before a pandemic and its associated relief funds became part of our common vernacular. This is the case with the Registry of Deeds in Lincoln County, Maine, which just wrapped up an eight-year project to make their complete files available online.

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